When Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes fail, it can disrupt critical security operations by causing vulnerability scans to miss important data and compliance reports to lack accuracy. These issues may lead to gaps in visibility, making it harder for security teams to maintain a comprehensive understanding of their environment. By addressing WMI class failures proactively, […]| Qualys Security Blog
HP BIOS Configuration Utility (BCU) has been around since longer than I’ve been a system administrator, I can’t find the exact date it was released, but it’s been around for a while.| GARYTOWN ConfigMgr Blog
I already have these 0x800706BA problem. | Franck RICHARD's Blog
PowerShell has gained popularity with SysAdmins and for good reason. It’s on every Windows machine (and now some Linux machines as well), has capabilities to interact with almost every service on every machine on the network, and it’s a command-line utility. For the same exact reasons, PowerShell has also become a favourite method of attackers […]| 🔐Blog of Osanda
Generally in application security, the user input must be sanitized. When it comes to SQL injection the root cause most of the time is because the input not being sanitized properly. I was curious about Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language – WQL which is the SQL for WMI. Can we abuse WQL if the input […]| 🔐Blog of Osanda
Lately I’ve been doing some experiments with Active Directory and of course I’m running my lab environment in Azure. It works great, until after 42 days the password of the one and only user account (mine) in the domain expires. Azure only provides remote desktop access to virtual machines, and in a default setup it’s impossible to change the password over rdp once the password has expired.| Passion for Coding